Universität Wien

240522 SE Globalization Frontiers - positions and identities in US border regions (P4) (2020S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 24 - Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Continuous assessment of course work

Participation at first session is obligatory!
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Wednesday 04.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Wednesday 18.03. 11:30 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Wednesday 01.04. 11:30 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Wednesday 06.05. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
  • Wednesday 27.05. 11:30 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Wednesday 10.06. 11:30 - 14:45 Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
  • Wednesday 24.06. 11:30 - 14:45 Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

1. Course contents

The terms 'transnationality' and 'transnationalism' show how cultural differences are increasingly instrumentalized for socio-economic goals and political power struggles, how globalization frontiers, i.e. contact and conflict zones, influence life in remote regions as well as major cities. Culture was becoming more versatile (cultural flows) and less dependent on a specific region (deterritorialization). These processes were closely connected to the formation of personal, gender and cultural identities. As a reaction to this socio-political development new boundaries have been set (-> Heyman & Campbell 2009).
Using the example of the interwoven and multifaceted relations between Latin America and the US, delimitation mechanisms, economic hierarchies, asymmetrical political relations and military interaction will be illustrated and put in relation to the processes of identity formation. This lecture-seminar course will outline these ideas (and their respective inherent problems) on the basis of recent examples. Furthermore, the ideas will be evaluated as to their applicability with regard to the regional and topical problem areas:

2. Course aim

The goal of this seminar course is to analyze a differentiated understanding of women and men in national, interethnic and transnational structures. The students will gain a better understanding of nationalistic, racist and sexist forms of oppression, power relations and their complex workings and mechanisms. Moreover, the students should come to understand themselves as active participants in group formation and, by actively forming seminar groups in class, experience social group formation as a process. The cooperation in working groups will facilitate the discursive debate on cultural and social anthropological questions. Another important goal is to illustrate the dynamics of group interaction as the students realize that they are actors in a collective process.

3. Teaching methods

The course will consist of:

input by the course instructor: moderation focusing (practical) examples from field research on the course topic
use of audio-visual media (film/video, photos/slides, audio samples)
student input (1): discussion of 3 core texts (per participant) on the course topics
student input (2): reading, working with the required reading material (dossier) for discussion in the plenary
student input (3): oral group work and presentation thereof in the plenary (PPP)
discussion of the problems and questions arising

Assessment and permitted materials

Exam and certificate requirements

~ regular attendance and active participation in class
~ discussion of 3 core texts (per participant) on the course topics
~ general knowledge of the core texts
~ oral presentation and discussion of group work in the plenary (PPP)
~ written seminar paper

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

~ discussion of 3 core texts: 20%
~ general knowledge of the core texts and participating in the plenary discussions: 10%
~ oral presentation and discussion of group work in the plenary (PPP): 20%
~ written seminar paper: 50%

The lecturer can invite students to a grade-relevant discussion about partial achievements. Partial achievements that are obtained by fraud or plagiarized result in the non-evaluation of the course (entry 'X' in certificate). From winter term 2019/20 the plagiarism software 'Turnitin' will be used for courses with continuous assessment.

Examination topics

Reading list

will be provided on moodle sampling:

GLICK SCHILLER, Nina/SALAZAR, Noel B. 2013: Regimes of Mobility around the Globe. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Vol. 39. No. 2:183-200.
GONZÁLES-LÓPEZ; Gloria 2005: Erotic Journeys. Mexican Immigrants and Their Sex Lives. University of California Press. Berkeley Los Angeles London.
HEYMAN, Josiah/CAMPBELL, Howard 2009: The anthropology of global flows. A critical reading of Appadurai’s ‘Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy.
LEWIN, Ellen (Ed.) (2006): Feminist Anthropology. A Reader. UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
MC ELREATH, Richard / BOYD, Robert / RICHERSON, Peter J. 2003: Shared Norms and the Evolution of Ethnic Markers. In: Current Anthropology, Vol.44/Nr.1.University of Chicago Press (122-129).
MOHANTY, Chandra Talpade 2003: Feminism without Borders. Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Durham, London: Duke University Press
PUCHEGGER-EBNER 2002: Uniendo Fronteras - Violence and Non-Violence two strategies for
demarcating and crossing boundaries on the Mexican / US American borderline. In: Feest (Ed.): European Review of Native American Studies:16/2. Altenstadt.
SMITH; Robert C. 2006: Mexican New York. Transnational Lives of New immigrants. University of California Press. Berkeley Los Angeles London.
VERKAAIK, Oskar 2003: Fun and violence. Ethnocide and the effervescence of collective aggression. In: Social Anthropology. The Journal of the EASA Volume 11/1 (3-22).

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